The Hazards of Updating

There is a reason we maintain a mirror or clone of each of our clients’ websites.  Earlier this week we updating a plugin and it took the entire website down.  This was a plugin that we have quite a bit of experience with, and all previous updates have happened without a hitch.  This time however it was different. After updating the plugin, the website appeared as a blank screen.

Fortunately, our practice is to install updates on the mirror/clone first for this very reason, As a result, the problem was isolated to the mirror/clone and the live website was unaffected.